Thought on the Mayor’s Race in Pittsburgh
Nov 7th, 2007 | By admin | Category: Liberal Free Friday, Pitt, PoliticalI heard one radio commentator gushing on and on about the “mandate” (man I am sick of that liberal code word) Luke was given in his victory over write-in Republican candidate Desantis.
In a city where the democrats supposedly outnumber republicans by 5 to 1 how does a 2 to 1 victory over a write-in candidate equate to any sort of mandate? Seems to me democrats weren’t energized at all to come out and support Mayor Luke in any appreciable numbers and the write-in candidate numbers were on the staggering side.
Only 42,190 votes were cast for Mayor Luke. Pittsburgh has a population of about 350,000. Mr. Desantis garnered 23,173 votes. Both huge democratic party defections and huge democratic party apathy has contributed to the decline of Pittsburgh in general and the rise of Republican and Third Party politics in particular.
Maybe, just maybe, as the “party line” voters continue to die off the crushing stranglehold of democratic corruption on Southwestern Pennsylvania will diminish and we can finally enter the 21st century with the rest of the country.